Posted on March 30, 2020
PlayGround-LA, Los Angeles’s incubator for a new generation of playwrights, caps off its eighth season on Monday evening, April 20, with Best of PlayGround-LA, a one-night gala celebration of the best playwrights and short plays selected from more than 150 submissions and 36 works developed as part of the season’s Monday Night PlayGround staged reading […]
Posted on March 30, 2020
UPDATE: The submission deadline to apply for the 2020-21 Writers Pool has been extended to 11:59pm on June 15, 2020. Are you a Los-Angeles-based early-career or aspiring professional playwright? Have you ever wanted to see your plays performed on stage by leading local professional actors? Do you respond well to deadlines? PlayGround-LA is seeking applications […]
Posted on March 23, 2020
The people have spoken … The March People’s Choice Award goes to Daysha Veronica for her short play, MOTHER EARTH DAY, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on March 9 at the Broadwater Main Stage. Congratulations, Daysha! Courtesy of Ms Veronica. , we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the […]
Posted on February 29, 2020
The people have spoken… The February People’s Choice Award goes to Rachel Borders for her short play, NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on February 10 at the Broadwater Black Box. Congratulations, Rachel! Courtesy of Ms. Borders, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from the award-winning […]
Posted on February 29, 2020
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we prepare to for the March 9th Monday Night PlayGround. Emily Brauer Rogers’ play THE PAPER HANGERS, an adaptation of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, will be performed at Stages Theatre in Orange County beginning March 7. For tickets or more […]
Posted on February 28, 2020
“For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating.” – Pablo Neruda PlayGround-LA concludes Season 8 of Monday Night PlayGround on Monday, March 9, with Planet Earth Arts Night, the 6th annual collaboration on the development of new environmental plays. Members of the 2019-20 PlayGround-LA Writers Pool have just four-and-a-half days to generate […]
Posted on February 1, 2020
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we prepare to for the February 10th Monday Night PlayGround. Jonathan Josephson is thrilled to be working on the libretto for a new concert version of RANDY NEWMAN’S FAUST , a modern retelling of the classic Devil vs. Lord story. After debuting 25 years ago […]
Posted on February 1, 2020
I’ll be there for you (When the rain starts to pour) I’ll be there for you (Like I’ve been there before) I’ll be there for you (‘Cause you’re there for me too) – I’ll Be There for You (“Friends” Theme) by The Rembrandts (1994) For the next round of Monday Night PlayGround, PlayGround-LA brings back […]
Posted on February 1, 2020
The people have spoken… The January People’s Choice Award goes to Scott Mullen for his short play, HAMLET AT THE PROM, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on January 13 at the Broadwater Main Stage. Congratulations, Scott! Courtesy of Mr. Mullen, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from the award-winning […]
Posted on January 7, 2020
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we prepare to for the January 13th Monday Night PlayGround. Andrew Crabtree‘s film, INHERIT THE VIPER, is coming out in theaters and On Demand this Friday! It’s playing in theaters in LA, NYC, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Phoenix, and Ft Lauderdale. Click here for […]